The kite runner [videorecording] / DreamWorks ; Paramount Classics ; Sidney Kimmel Entertainment ; Participant Productions ; Parkes/MacDonald production ; director of photography, Roberto Schaefer ; executive producers, Sidney Kimmel, Laurie MacDonald, Sam Mendes, Jeff Skoll ; produced by William Horberg, Walter Parkes, Rebecca Yeldham, E. Bennett Walsh ; screenplay by David Benioff ; directed by Marc Forster.
Khalid Abdalla, Homayoun Ershadi, Shaun Toub, Atossa Leoni, Saïd Taghmaoui, Zekiria Ebrahimi, Ali Danish Bakhtyari, Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada. Based on the book by Khaled Hosseini. Originally released as a motion picture in 2007. Special features: Optional introduction Public Service Announcement with Khaled Hosselini; Commentary with Forster, Hosseini & Benioff; "Words from 'The kite runner'" featurette; "Images from 'The kite runner'" featurette (25 min.).
Contents:
Special features: Widescreen version enhanced for 16:9 TVs -- Commentary with Marc Forster, Khaled Hosseini and David Benioff -- Words from The Kite Runner -- Images from The Kite Runner -- Theatrcal trailer -- Language: English Dolby digital 5.1 surround ; French Dolby digital 5.1 surround ; Spanish Dolby digital 5.1 surround -- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish.
Summary:
In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It's a glorious afternoon in Kabul and the skies are bursting with the exhilarating joy of a kite-fighting tournament. But in the aftermath of the day's victory, one boy's fearful act of betrayal will mark their lives forever and set in motion an epic quest for redemption. Now, after twenty years of living in America, Amir returns to a perilous Afghanistan under the Taliban's iron-fisted rule to face the secrets that still haunt him and take one last daring chance to set things right.
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